Linguistics

M. Alekseev

The Peculiarities of Attributive Word-Combination with Dependent Noun in Russian and Daghestanian Languages

The main difference between word-combinations of the discussed type in Daghestanian and Russian langueges is the order of components: Rus. Head + Modifier and Dagh. Modifier + Head. These structures are used to express possession, whole-and-the-part relations etc. The difference is also concerns the expression of subject-object relations and non-genitive attributive nouns. Apposition is also discussed in the paper.

Institute of Linguistics
of Russan Academy of Sciences

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